Can depression affect your ability to love and care for people?
I feel horrible just asking this, but is it possible to lose those feelings while depressed? I have been depressed for a few months and I have notived this worry slowly get worse and I feel so guilty because I wanna care for my friends and love them but I feel like I can't. I also have severe anxiety and overthink, so maybe I am, but I get scared that maybe I never cared at all and I never will again. My friends didn't do anything so it isn't like they are toxic. I just lost a connection with them and I wish I didn't.
@rose110364
Yes, this is what true depression means, the loss of will to live, you lose interest in everything in life, including love, that means caring for other people as well as yourself...
You go in limbo...
Yep, welcome to the club, this is how ugly depression is and we depressed people cannot even help each other in support since we cannot help ourselves, lost empathy, interest, everything, as I summed it up:
"we lost our will to live..."
Good luck on your path...
@GreyMirror thank you i really appreciate your answer. i wish you nothing but the best!
@rose110364
I still hope some of us will reach shore eventually...
@rose110364
My husband has plummeted into a depression really fast, we have gone from loving and happy to him asking me to just back off......is there hope that he will feel the love again. 😔